Photos of the day 04/04

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A Buddhist monk, offering prayers, walks through the area destroyed by a tsunami in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, in northern Japan. Kyodo News/AP

Members of the Islami Oikyo Jote (Unity Forum) pray as they barricade a highway during a daylong strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dozens of people were injured and more than 50 detained as Bangladeshi police clashed with Islamists protesting against a government policy to empower women in the mainly Muslim country, police and witnesses said. Andrew Biraj/Reuters

A Kashmiri boatman rows his shikara, a traditional gondola, as a passenger holds an umbrella to shield himself from rain on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir. Dar Yasin/AP

A goose wearing an 'identification card' around its neck walks down a hutong (small alley) next to its owner in central Beijing. The goose is a regular sight in the alley since it goes for a walk each morning with its owner who adopted the stray goose a few years ago. David Gray/Reuters

Motorists pack a road as they return to their homes after a tsunami warning was called off following a magnitude-6.7 earthquake in Cilacap, Central Java, Indonesia. The strong earthquake prompted authorities to briefly issue a tsunami warning that sent thousands of residents fleeing to higher ground. AP

Rabbis from England and the United States bury the remains of dozens of Jews, killed by Romanian troops during World War II, in a cemetery in Iasi, Romania. Archaeologists unearthed the mass grave in a forest area near the village of Popricani in November 2010. Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Devotees carrying chariots participate in the Chariot Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. The festival is celebrated by the Newar community. People wear colorful hats and carry chariots of the goddesses Kankeshwori, Shankata, and Bhadrakali. Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters

A woman stands near a United Airlines airplane that made an emergency landing shortly after takeoff at Louis Armstrong International Airport in Kenner, La. The flight from New Orleans to San Francisco returned to the airport within minutes of taking off after rocking back and forth. Copilot Ronald Lee Young told an Associated Press reporter aboard Flight 497 that he landed on backup systems, with minimal steering and braking ability, after the plane lost all electronics. He said the plane, heavy with fuel, ran off the runway and blew a tire. Patrick Semansky/AP

During a training session, Anna Dementyeva from Russia performs on the horizontal bar prior to the Artistic Gymnastics European Championships in Berlin. The finals will take place from April 8 to April 10. Michael Sohn/AP

An Indian woman, carrying her baby, votes at a polling center in the village of Chotai, India. The first phase of polling takes place Monday in 62 of the 126 constituencies in the northeastern Assam state. Anupam Nath/AP

Elephant calf George walks in line as his mother Karishma holds his tail during an event staged for the media at Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, England. George joined the herd on their daily walkabout to mark his first birthday, following training by his keepers to ensure that he can walk trunk to tail without wandering off or getting distracted by the busy zoo. Matt Dunham/AP

Hudson Pangan cheers while seated on the shoulders of his mother, Catherine, at a pep rally in support of the Butler University men's basketball team on the school's campus in Indianapolis. Butler faces Connecticut in the NCAA Mens Final tonight in Houston. The Pangans live on the Butler campus in faculty housing and Catherine said she's particularly excited because she is a professor of Butler Bulldog starting guard Ronald Nored. Amy Sancetta/AP

The flag stick sits in the hole on the first green during a practice round for the 2011 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Shaun Best/Reuters

An antigovernment protester flashes the victory sign as he emerges through a gap in Yemen's national flag during a demonstration in Sanaa. Police and armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on antigovernment demonstrators in the Yemeni cities of Taiz and Hudaida today, witnesses said, as a drive to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh gathered pace. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

A child's gas mask and doll are seen inside a kindergarten in the abandoned city of Prypiat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. The 25th anniversary of the nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear accident, is on April 26. Gleb Garanich/Reuters

A Colombian amputee soldier, victim of a land mine, walks through a shoe installation marking International Day for Landmine Awareness at Simon Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia. As part of the event, more than 9,000 shoes, each bearing the name of a land mine victim, were placed in the main square of the South American capital. Colombia is second to Afghanistan as the nation with the largest number of victims. Fernando Vergara/AP

A duck swims through fallen cherry blossom petals on the Tidal Basin in Washington during the 2011 National Cherry Blossom Festival. Carolyn Kaster/AP

On Friday, Russia's sports ministry denied accusations of state-sponsored doping that implicate more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports in sample swapping, tampering with samples, and taking steroid cocktails designed to evade Olympic testing.